Reading Time: < 1 min A few weeks ago, WordPress.com (not to be confused with the free downloadable software at WordPress.org) announced that they were going to be offering a site building service. This has concerned a lot of folks in the industry (“they’re going to steal our business”), but I think the concern is overblown. In fact, this is […]
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The WordPress Community
Reading Time: < 1 min There’s something unique about the community of people that work with WordPress, and I absolutely love it. When explaining our Meetup to people, I generally say something like “We stand up and give away all of our secrets to our competition, and they stand up and give theirs away too“. We all leave the meeting […]
Seriously, start your own blog
Reading Time: < 1 min While I’d love to see some kind of open-source, distributed social network start up, nothing is on the immediate horizon. However, we already have the tools in place to mostly do it ourselves. Here’s some thoughts about how we could make a better social network by starting our own blogs. If you need help getting […]
Write of Passage, Start your Blog
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently listened to David Perell’s full Write of Passage podcast. It’s 21 episodes, but each one is only a minute or two so you can knock out the whole thing in under an hour. He has some great insights and inspiration to get you going. He has a full “school” you can join that […]
WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve not talked much about specific gadgets or plugins lately, but I’m finding tremendous value from the (free!) WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin. While I publish a new post every day on this blog, I write them in batches as I have time. As a result, I generally have 5-10 posts ready to go that are […]
Take back your content
Reading Time: 3 min As of the time of this writing, many people (primarily conservatives) are looking to leave Facebook and move their account over to Parler, the “free speech social network”. I’ve seen quite a few friends “leave” Facebook for Parler, but then they keep posting new stuff on Facebook. Interpret that how you will. Parler may or […]
What Google’s Latest Changes Mean for Your Site
Reading Time: < 1 min Below are the slides from my talk at WordCamp Atlanta this afternoon. If you want to keep up with this stuff from Google going forward, you can use the email subscription box on the right or subscribe to the podcast here: You can download the slides in this PDF or browse them here: Googles Latest […]
My first real post with Gutenberg
Reading Time: 3 min If you do much work in the WordPress world, you have likely heard about the new “Gutenberg” editor that is coming to WordPress in the coming months. It’s a drastic change to how you work with posts and pages, and it should be a great thing. If you’re not familiar with it, this Meetup recap […]
Learn all about WordPress with A Brighter Web
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve spent much of the past month or so working on a huge revamp of A Brighter Web, and we’re proud to be able to show it to you now. We’ve had our local Meetup running for about five years now. We’ve hosted over 100 meetings with around 3500 total attendees, and we’ll continue to host […]
Switching to the SEO Framework plugin?
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve been a big fan of the Yoast SEO plugin for many years. It does a great job of helping with the SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) on WordPress-powered websites. I first shared it with you back in 2012 and I wrote this long post about how to use it in 2013. Even today we’re still […]